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Welcome to the Literary Bulletin
Nga mihi nui ki a koutou katoa - welcome to Te Wiki o te Reo Maori. A highlight of the week was last night's annual Janet Frame Memorial Lecture delivered by 2019-2020 President of Honour, David Hill. Paula Browning from Copyright Licensing NZ also announced the CLNZ/NZSA research grant recipients at this event.
I was pleased to attend part of Northwrite last weekend in Whangarei and well done to Kathy Derrick and Diana Menefy and others of the Northland branch for putting on a great weekend.
Many of our members will remember the 'golden age of fiction publishing in NZ' in the 1980s and we remember and acknowledge Bert Hingley who was farewelled in Australia yesterday. There is an obituary on our website.
I draw your attention to a myriad of residencies (for 2020) open for application along with submission opportunities below. Also letting you know Claire is on leave for the next two weeks so the office will be unstaffed at times.
"In a gentle way, you can shake the world" (Gandhi). RIP Bert Hingley.
Noho ora mai
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David Hill delivers the annual Janet Frame Memorial Lecture
The NZSA annual Janet Frame Memorial Lecture was delivered last night in Auckland by 2019-2020 President of Honour, David Hill. Around 75 gathered at the Ellen Melville Centre to hear this doyen of children's literature talk about the state of the literary arts and the life of a writer. The lecture was recorded and will be released as a podcast in a few weeks but is already available in text form on the website. Many thanks to David for an enjoyable, slightly wry address!
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2019 CLNZ/NZSA Research Grant Recipients Announced
The 2019 Copyright Licensing New Zealand (CLNZ) and New Zealand Society of Authors (NZSA) Research Grants were awarded last night to Giovanna Fenster, Philip Simpson, Ghazaleh Golbakhsh and Joanne Drayton. Joanne was the winner of the Stout Fellowship.
The $5,000 grants support New Zealand writers who wish to undertake research for a fiction or non-fiction writing project. David Veart, 2019 judging panel convener said "the overall quality was high and the upper end of the list strong. We could have easily added many more to the shortlist."
You can read more about the winners and their projects on our website.
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Arts Foundation laureate awarded to Laurence Fearnley
Dunedin author and NZSA member Laurence Fearnley has won what she describes as a morale-boosting award that further proves the abilities of the city's writers.
Fearnley was the only South Island-based winner of an Arts Foundation laureate, announced last weekend, and the only writer among the 10 laureate awards that celebrate artistic pursuits from dance to design. Read more about Laurence Fearnley
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University of Otago College of Education Creative NZ Children's Writer in Residence Fellowship
Children's author, poet and NZSA member Elena de Roo will take the University of Otago College of Education Creative New Zealand Children's Writer in Residence Fellowship, and is planning a project inspired by the paintings of New Zealand painter Bill Hammond. More
2020 Robert Burns Fellow
Next year's Robert Burns Fellow will be Dr John Newton, a poet and literary historian who is working on the second installment of a three-volume history of 20th-century New Zealand writing. The second installment, Where Exactly Are We? spans the period 1946 to 1968. More
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Creative NZ - a profile of creative professionals - research results
Last year, Creative New Zealand and NZ On Air engaged a research company to survey professionals who earned at least some income from their creative work on aspects of their careers. What many in the sector had known for so long came to the fore - that those working in the creative industries often have to juggle jobs, earn less than their peers, lose good people, dodge safety nets, and regularly navigate other harsh realities. The research was published in May this year. Here is a link to the article we shared following the release.
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Got a book to promote during Book Week?
NZ Bookshop Day will be held on Saturday 26 October 2019
We are collaborating with Booksellers NZ and Public Libraries NZ to create opportunities for our members to promote their books during Book Week and on Bookshop Day. We will once again supply Booksellers NZ with a list of members with recently published books that are available in bookshops and libraries. They are going to use the list as a reference for authors that they can contact to include in events they are planning. They will use postcodes to find authors in their vicinity. If you would like to be added to that list, here's the form.
Book Week 2019 - participation form
It is solely the choice of the book shop or library and NZSA has no influence in the selections they make.
This year will see dozens of bookshops throughout New Zealand celebrate their communities with a range of events, competitions and exciting activities. https://www.booksellers.co.nz/nzbookshopday
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Storylines Betty Gilderdale Award winner announced
Storylines is pleased to announce that the 2019 winner is Crissi Blair, from Auckland. Crissi has been writing about children’s books and their makers for nearly 20 years, including seven years for the Book Council’s e-news The School Library, reviews and articles for Australia’s Magpies magazine, for which she is now New Zealand coordinator; and her own publication New Zealand Children’s Books in Print, among many activities and involvement in the children’s literature community. Read more about Crissi here, and the news release here.
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The Literary Bulletin and you: survey results
Many thanks to those who responded to this survey. We received great feedback with 450 sharing their views. This is almost a third of our membership!
Results show that around 50% of members want to receive the Bulletin on a Friday (or think the day doesn't matter). The most popular sections of the Bulletin are Literary News, Death by Deadline, Events & Opportunities, and Deep Craft. Overall, respondents were happy with how the Literary Bulletin delivers information. But we also received some great suggestions about new items we could add, ways we can improve, and where we might be able to cut back. Big thanks to those people who filled out the survey. To see the graphs etc go to Survey Results
Our next member survey. 5 questions: learning opportunities - what, where, how?
We are reviewing some of the key services we offer NZSA members, with the aim of improving services where we can, adding services where we need to, and retaining the services you love. There are only five questions in the survey and it will take under five minutes to complete.
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Booker Prize 2019 Shortlist
- Margaret Atwood The Testaments
- Lucy Ellmann Ducks, Newburyport
- Bernardine Evaristo Girl, Woman, Other
- Chigozie Obioma An Orchestra of Minorities
- Salman Rushdie Quichotte
- Elif Shafak 10 Minutes 38 Seconds In This Strange World
It is no surprise that this year’s Booker shortlist is a surprise. Second-guessing the judges is always a fruitless task and a cluster of fancied names have not made the cut – the critics’ tip Deborah Levy and the much fancied Max Porter and Kevin Barry being among them. The two biggest names though, Margaret Atwood and Salman Rushdie, both past winners, have made it through. More
Also discussed on Publishing Perspectives The Guardian
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New Zealand Book Council is changing its name and identity to become Read NZ Te Pou Muramura.
The move will better reflect its work to promote reading through a range of programmes and campaigns, as well as a desire to remain truly relevant in a changing Aotearoa New Zealand.
Staff and board worked with education consultant Te Ataahia Hurihanganui of Reo Rua Māori Language Consultancy to create the name Te Pou Muramura. This special name expresses the concept of moving from darkness into light, as told in the Māori creation story. This metaphor can also be used to describe what happens during the process of reading.
'Muramura' is a glowing ember, flame or blaze, and 'pou' is an upright supporting post or pole. Te Pou Muramura speaks to the sustenance of a blaze, in the way that reading can spark a glow or light in our minds. More
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Victoria University of Wellington announces Emerging Māori Writer’s Residency
To mark Te Wiki o te Reo Māori, Victoria University of Wellington’s International Institute of Modern Letters (IIML) is delighted to announce the inaugural Emerging Māori Writer’s Residency for 2020.
The Residency, supported by Creative New Zealand, runs for three months and includes a writing room, a mentor, and a stipend of $15,000. Projects may be written in English or te reo Māori, and the residency is open to writers across all genres. It runs during the second half of 2020. More
Deadline for applications: 25 November 2019
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Publishers' Licensing Services - UK based content permissions service
Publishers' Licensing Services, a not-for-profit organisation in the UK,offer a free service for authors seeking permission regarding copyright and quoting other people's content. PLSclear.com allows authors to request text, poetry, images, and other content from published works.
The service is completely free to make requests. The only fees requestors may expect to pay would be for the licence to reuse the content requested.
The service is open to publishers worldwide. Currently, the publishers using the system are mainly UK based with a handful of US publishers opted in. Their title search is based off of their database of titles and supplemented by Nielsen and Bowker so New Zealand originated titles will appear in search results. More
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Spring Writing Workshops with Paula Morris at University of Auckland
Saturday 28 September
Seminar room 612, level 6, Arts 1 / School of Humanities Building (Building 206), 14a Symonds St, Auckland
Join Paula Morris for an intensive craft-focused day working on fiction and creative nonfiction. The workshops include exercises, handouts and discussions, to help you start or restart your projects, and invigorate your own creative practice. Come for a morning boot camp or stay all day for full immersion.
Morning workshop: 10am - 12:15pm; Afternoon workshop: 1:15pm - 3:30pm
Price: $70 for morning only; $125 for the whole day. Limited to 18 people. RSVP to p.morris@auckland.ac.nz to reserve your place.
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Invitation to take part in Hidden Heritage project
Does your personal collection of documents and artefacts tell a story about your life and work? Do you need help organising it and preserving for the future? Would you rather throw it all away?
We are inviting members of the NZSA to participate in our project Hidden heritage: preserving, presenting, and reusing personal collections. This project, run by a team of researchers at Victoria University of Wellington looks at the heritage potential within personal collections of significant individuals and the issues faced when organising personal collections.
Read more and take part http://hiddenheritage.vuw.ac.nz/participation.html.
Please contact Maja (maja.krtalic@vuw.ac.nz).
Maja Krtalić, Jesse Dinneen, Chern Li Liew, and Anne Goulding
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Michael Gifkins Prize for an Unpublished Novel 2020
Deadline: Midnight, 31 October
The prize is open to writers holding New Zealand citizenship or who are permanent residents of New Zealand, and, thanks to a generous financial commitment from the late Michael Gifkins’ family, the winner will receive a contract for world rights from Text, and an advance of NZ$10,000.
The prize is administered by the New Zealand Society of Authors (PEN NZ Inc). Entry forms and terms and conditions.
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Writing Appraisal Service - subsidised for NZSA members - StartWrite 2019 service OPEN
Appraisals are available on a first come, first served basis.
The NZSA Writing Sample and Synopsis Assessment Service is an excellent opportunity for writers to get an appraisal of up to 6000 words. This is a fast and efficient way to get you on track with your work - be it poetry, an early draft of an MS, short stories etc. Find out more
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Today, after nearly five years, Ukrainian journalist and filmmaker and 2017 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award winner Oleg Sentsov is free, released as part of a prisoner swap between the Russian and Ukrainian governments. These days in the field of free expression, breakthrough victories are rare enough that they must be savored. Sentsov's liberation by Russia's Vladimir Putin, coming after a two-and-a-half-year global campaign kicked off by the presentation of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award, is testament to the power of advocacy and activism to yield results even in the toughest of circumstances. More
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Email PEN spokesperson Dana Wensley at PEN@nzauthors.org.nz for issues to do with Freedom of Expression. Email Writers In Prison co-ordinator Lesley Marshall if you would like to be part of the Writers in Prison letter writing team.
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Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award
Deadline: 31 October 2019
The Storylines Janice Marriott Mentoring Award is open to any unpublished New Zealand writer meeting the residency qualifications and offers the opportunity to work with Janice Marriott for six months to develop and polish a manuscript for a junior fiction novel.
More details, criteria and the entry form are on the Storylines web page.
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Opportunities
Log in using your email address and password.
Opportunities are listed by deadline date.
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How We Survive: A Feminist Poetry Show
Lift Women’s Voices. Burn The Patriarchy Down.
How We Survive is a feminist spoken word performance featuring internationally acclaimed poets Olivia Hall and Carrie Rudzinski. This two woman show presents a powerful and honest narrative on what is to be a woman living and surviving in 2019. More
Where: Meteor Theatre, 1 Victoria Street
When: Sunday 22nd September
Time: 7:30pm
Price: $25 / $15 concession
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Bestsellers from Nielsen BookScan
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Latest Nielsen Bestseller reports
Bestsellers Chart - fiction, non-fiction, adults, children & Independent Booksellers Top 20
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Writers on Radio and TV
Click here for the lineup for upcoming Books on Radio New Zealand National.
Nine to Noon submission form
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